Academe Links June 12, 2007

Of desktops and coffee tables: What's your favorite surface?

http://www.academiccommons.org/library/scratching-the-surface

Reminder: A Glossary of Definitions and Design Patterns for Educational Simulations http://clarkaldrich.blogspot.com/

Great videos on RSS, Wikis and more...

http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/2007/06/great_videos_on.html

The Perpetuation of Privilege

http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/06/12/kimbrough

A More Deliberative Democracy

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/12/democracy

Tool: Sputtr

http://www.sputtr.com/

International Education Discussion at NUTN http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/index.php/2007/06/11/international-education-discussion-at-nutn/

Virtual Dormitories for Freshmen [Aside: For 30 years ResLife has tried to get people to call Dorms Residence Halls and they are the only people on campus who do so.] http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2143/mits-virtual-dormitories-for-freshmen

Google named worst privacy offender in study http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070611-google-named-worst-privacy-offender-in-study.html

Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digital_repositories/web2-content-learning-and-teaching.pdf

Video of Stephen Fry explaining web 2.0

http://www.videojug.com/interview/web-20-2

Facebook as an Academic Tool?

http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2007/06/facebook_an_aca.html

Gmail can preview ppt

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/gmail-can-preview-powerpoint-files-too.html

The Fantasy of Fair Use: Preemption

http://www.copycense.com/2007/06/the_fantasy_of_.html

My Favorite Font

http://www.slate.com/id/2166947/nav/navoa/

Resource/curiosity: All My Faves

http://www.allmyfaves.com/

R. C. Rybnikar

Babson College Archives

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http://www.babson.edu/archives

"You might want to send someone to take a pulse – I believe the archivist is dead."

Comment from researcher to Horn Library staffer.